After Bonn one agreements, President Hamid Karzai was brought to the front to assume the Herculean task of leading Afghanistan, which was emerging out of three decades of warfare and conflict. It was an extremely difficult task to take on. This role required a prudence to bring the country together. But President Karzai appears not to have been the kind of leader to play that role.

After the fall of the brutal regime of the Taliban, there was a trust deficit due to the conflict and infighting that had lingered on. President Karzai had to work hard to reduce the divide. As soon as he established and consolidated this power, he began to build a corrupt network that would help him in election frauds for the purpose of making sure that he is reelected and continues to hold power.

The President tried to marginalize or give a symbolic role to the Jihada leaders that had fought the Soviets as well as the Taliban. They had borne the real hardships and continue to have power bases among the people across the country. The President was smart enough to use these leaders whenever he needed to muster public support.

But as soon as he was in power through election or reelection, he retreated to his presidential palace- or Arg- ignorant of the support the Jihadi leaders put for him. In order to prevent them from taking any initiative, President Karzai has continued to call them to his palace for some symbolic consultations. But when it comes to the real decision-making, he follows a team of his own.

This apparently smart politics played by President Karzai has alienated the Jihadi leaders and now they are virtually all unhappy with the way the government approaches them. The most dangerous thing was that the government under the leadership of President Karzai provided the context for the Taliban and other insurgents to operate freely and to target some Jihadi commanders and leaders with an utter impunity.

Their murderers were never chased genuinely to bring them to justice. Some Jihadi leaders and commanders on Sunday this week addressed a ceremony marking the first death anniversary of Gen. Daud Daud, the commander of 303rd pamir zone police. Almost all of them were critical of the government and its policies.

Marshal Fahim, the first Vice-President, said that he had previously asked the Taliban to renounce insurgency and join the peace process. "The enemies of Afghanistan, who once violated and insulted the people, today lacked the combat facilities.

Their future is in stake, therefore they prefer to kill people and Jihadi figures. On behalf of Mujahedeen and security forces, I want to convey this message that they will never reach their goals, if they aimed to destabilize and weaken Afghanistan through terror and insurgency."

The brother of slain Ahmad Shah Masood and the head of National Front of Afghanistan said, "Afghans suffer enmity, this enmity is sometimes in Quetta of Pakistan, sometimes in guesthouses of current administration or at the President Palace." Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, an influential Hazara leader, and a leader of National Front said, "The government should not show their weakness to the armed opposition, but it should defend the missions of the martyrs.'' It seems that the Jihadi leaders will no longer tolerate the government's appeasement policies towards the Taliban that continue to target them.